History
Wakamatsu-kawada Station opened on 12 December 2000 as a Toei Ōedo Line stop in Kawadachō, Shinjuku, sited between the former tram-stop locations of Wakamatsuchō and Kawadachō on the route inherited from Toden line 13, which had been abolished in 1970. The early working name was simply Wakamatsuchō Station, but Fuji TV's March 1997 move from Kawadachō to Daiba left the Kawadachō shopping district worried about decline, so the operator combined both place-names; the planned working name was kept as a prefix and Kawada appended. PASMO acceptance began on 18 March 2007. The station has a single underground island platform with two surface exits, Wakamatsu to the east and Kawada to the west.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The Edo-era place-name Wakamatsuchō recalls how the locale used to send young pine (wakamatsu) up to the shogun's family each New Year, while the nickname of the hill above the platforms — Dango-zaka — traces the muddy clay that turned to dumpling-balls on the boots of people and pack-horses crossing the wetland that gave Kawadachō its name.